Handan
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
"Sometime in the afternoon, we reached Hantan, a town of forty thousand people along the now defunct Peiping-Hankow Railway. Although the first real city I had seen since leaving Kuomintang areas, Hantan was only half alive."
Example
More examples"Sometime in the afternoon, we reached Hantan, a town of forty thousand people along the now defunct Peiping-Hankow Railway. Although the first real city I had seen since leaving Kuomintang areas, Hantan was only half alive."
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邯鄲／邯郸 (Hándān).
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